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Israeli journalist with intel ties hints at Mossad role in Iran scientist murders

Ron Ben-Yishai, an Israeli journalist with close ties to the military-intelligence establishment, hints strongly that Israel’s Mossad is behind the spate of murders of Iranian nuclear scientists.

Earlier this week Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was killed in Tehran when assassins on motorcycles attached a bomb to his car. The campaign of murders, Ben-Yishai writes on Ynet, is aimed at “killing the brains” behind Iran’s nuclear program. He adds:

The assassination of Iranian experts is meant to deter other scientists, including foreign ones, from getting involved in such projects. The eliminations also slow down these projects and force Tehran to reorganize. Moreover, killing key figures in vital projects greatly embarrasses the Iranian regime and security forces. Such operations portray the establishment as an incompetent bunch that time after time fails in safeguarding vital interests.

Mossad fingerprints

And then under a subheading titled “Mossad fingerprints?” Ben-Yishai writes:

All indications show that a state organ is behind the assassinations. Only a state has the resources required to carry out the kind of operations executed in Iran. This includes investment in intelligence gathering that identifies the targets and prioritizes them, the investment of time and sophisticated means in preparing an operation against people or locations that are usually under heavy guard, as well as the recruitment and training of the perpetrators. National spy agencies are virtually the only ones that possess such capabilities.

For these reasons, the Iranians and the international media tend to point to the CIA or Israel’s Mossad as the parties responsible for the assassinations and blasts in Iran. However, official American and Israeli spokespeople have not claimed responsibility for such operations.

Israel is prime suspect

Ben-Yishai’s article although it does not directly confirm the Israeli role will only add to indications Israel is responsible. Even The New York Times now seems to take this for granted. Scott Shane reported on 12 January:

As arguments flare in Israel and the United States about a possible military strike to set back Iran’s nuclear program, an accelerating covert campaign of assassinations, bombings, cyberattacks and defections appears intended to make that debate irrelevant, according to current and former American officials and specialists on Iran.

The campaign, which experts believe is being carried out mainly by Israel, apparently claimed its latest victim on Wednesday when a bomb killed a 32-year-old nuclear scientist in Tehran’s morning rush hour.

Israeli spies posed as CIA officers in covert war on Iran

In a bombshell article in foreign pollcy, Mark Perry, based on CIA memos, that Israei Mossad agents posed as CIA officers to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah to carry out assassinations and bombings in Iran:

Buried deep in the archives of America’s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush’s administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush with American dollars and toting U.S. passports, posed as CIA officers in recruiting Jundallah operatives – what is commonly referred to as a “false flag” operation.

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ABC, NBC, PBS, and all major US strategic information 'news' sources are
brazenly touting the 'covert campaign'. It's disingenuous to finger just 'israel', just another way of taking world-enemy #1 imperialist-zionist US off the hook since its proxy couldn't exist with US support. Which like all client states, as simon peres said, cannot make a major move without its benefactor's approval.
"When [Michael] Ledeen asked Prime Minister Shimon Peres for assistance, the Israeli leader agreed to sell weapons to Iran at America's behest, providing the sale had high-level U.S. approval.Before the Israelis participate, says the report, they demanded "a clear, express and binding consent by the U.S. Government." http://www.jewishvirtuallibrar...
Taking the heat for US is part of the job, quid pro quo, serving US global domination agenda and 'eretz israel's' complimentary agenda.